Colorado’s creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions for leverage

, founded in 1891. Last month, the Colorado chapter of IATSE, which represents stagehands, authorized a strike vote over an expired contract.

One of the tallest climbs, however, is in the service industry, which has had historically low union representation. In June, thousands of Starbucks employees at 150 stores went on strike to protest the stores’ policy of limiting Pride Month decorations. In Colorado, the company has also illegally retaliated against workers who tried to unionize at nine statewide stores,Mercury Cafe owner Danny Newman at one of his historic Denver businesses, My Brothers Bar, in Denver on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.

Last month in Lakewood, 50 Casa Bonita employees gathered for an all-hands meeting and delivered a letter of demands to owners and “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker,. The staff had been notified mere days before the Lakewood Mexican eatery launched its “soft openings” that higher-ups nixed the option for customers to tip, instead giving workers a flat fee of $30 per hour. Casa Bonita had first said it would pay bartenders $14.

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